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A s a torch burns in an inner room free from disturbance by wind, so does the torch of meditation burn when free from the wind of attachment.

quote 6279 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 5/123

A ll sin and all merit, bondage and emancipation arise from motive; so it has been stated in the Jina’s scripture.

quote 6278 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 5/116

T hus knowing the virtue of forgiveness, forgive all living beings in three ways (thought, word and deed), and put out the fire of anger, harboured for long, with the water of noble forgiveness.

quote 6277 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 5/109

O ne not established in religion harbours sin and is like the flower of a sugarcane which neither bears fruit nor has any useful properties.

quote 6276 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 5/71

W hat is the use of receipting or listening to (the scripture) without mental purity? Mental attitude is the cause of piety in a householder or a homeless ascetic.

quote 6275 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 5/66

A s a stone is not pierced through if kept in water for a long time, even so is the saint not affected by calamities and hardships.

quote 6274 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 5/95

T he Jina had said that the soul is of the nature of knowledge and is possessed of consciousness; know that soul in order to destroy Karmas.

quote 6273 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 5/62

H e who contemplates the soul in its true nature with pure thoughts gets rid of old age and death and attains Nirvana for certain.

quote 6272 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 5/61

I give up egotism, I am poised in selflessness, my refuge is the self, I renounce all else.

quote 6271 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 5/57

F ree from attachment to body etc., completely free from pride, the self absorbed in the self, - such is the saint of mental purity.

quote 6270 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 5/56

O ne free from hankering is really free, not one free from brothers etc. and friends; brave man, think thus and get rid of internal smelled.

quote 6269 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 5/43

I n the endless sea of mundane existence there is no point of space or time, no form of matter or life, no mode or species and no age which the soul has not made its own and given up.

quote 6268 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 5/35

T hou hast swallowed all kinds of matter existing in the world without feeling appeased, even after eating again and again.

quote 6267 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 5/22

O wing to sorrow at thy death, many different mothers have shed tears which exceeded the water in the ocean.

quote 6266 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 5/19

G reat man, the milk you have sucked from the breast of various mothers in the endless cycle of births exceeded the water in the ocean.

quote 6265 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 5/18

W ith fruition of Karmas stopped, with forgiveness and control of senses, with a body unadorned and unoiled, free from pride, attachment and aversion, such is renunciation said to be.

quote 6264 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 4/52

A man may have knowledge (as a natural gift); a good man endowed with reverence acquires it. With knowledge one sees the goal of the path of liberation.

quote 6263 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 4/22

A s a man without a bow and without an arrow cannot hit the target accurately, so a man without knowledge does not see the goal of the path of liberation.

quote 6262 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 4/21

K nowledge attains the goal of the path of liberation, consisting of self control and fit for contemplation, therefore cultivate knowledge.

quote 6261 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 4/20

T hus has been briefly described right living in two parts corresponding to faith and conduct as reflected in the knowledge of Him, without attachment.

quote 6260 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 3/44

T he man of knowledge, established in (right conduct does not desire non-self (to be associated) with the self. He soon attains bliss beyond comparison; know this for certain.

quote 6259 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 3/43

F aith, knowledge and conduct, learn these three with the greatest devotion. Knowing these, the yogis soon attain Nirvana.

quote 6258 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 3/40

T o instruct good people, the great Jina has described knowledge and its true character, which is the self; know that well accordingly.

quote 6257 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 3/38

C onquer ignorance and superstition by pure faith, and infatuation with its paraphernalia by the religion of non-injury.

quote 6256 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 3/15

T here are eight attributes of righteous faith, freedom from fear (or doubt), desirelessness, freedom from disgust or hatred (humility), vision free from superstition, covering up the defects (of others i.e. charity), steadying (one-self and others in right faith), selfless love and glorification (of right faith).

quote 6255 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 3/7

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